Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-08-18

Constable A. Hays, of Gable, arrived
in Rock Island last night with warrant
for the arrest of NJ Bowlby. travelling
salesman for the music house of ID. Roy
Bowlby, and aged about sixty five, on
the charge of attempted rape, the victim
| being little girl eleven years of age,
named Maud Phillips, and daughter of
John Phillips, OF Cable. The crime is
| alleged to have been committed ON the
afternoon of Monday, but the complete
particulars are not obtainable.
Constable Hays put the warrant in
Sheriff Silvis' hands and that official ar
rested Bowlby last evening and turned
him over to the constable, who took him
to Cable this morning for preliminary sx>
animation. Mai, ]. NJ Beardsley was
engaged as Bowlby's counsel and went
out also. The defendant denies the
charge and says it is gross Islander and
wholly without foundation.
| THE BURGLARS.
There is no longer any doubt
in the minds of the police that the
lefty is oyerrun by an organized band
of burglars and highwaymen. LAS
night when E. II. Listen, who is an ex
press messenger for the United States
Express company, on arriving home
found that his house On Twenty secont
street between Seventh and Eighth ave,
nues, had been burglarzed the previous
night. Mr. Listens family are out o
town, and the burglars helped the mselve'
to all they could carry away. getting
about $50 worth in all
Last evening about Z O'Clock Marsha
Brennan and Officer Meenan discovered
a suspicious body of men in the uppe
saw mill yards. They were talking con
fidentially, but dispersed and fed in al
directions on the approach of the police
, The officers and several of the mill hand
: entered into pursuit, hut the men ha
scattered and it was trouble to find on
of hem among the lumber piles. Their
were no serious depredations commtte
last night, although several persons re
T port hearing noises about their house
and fleeing footsteps when they arose +
investigate. 1t is bold gang that is in
Testing Rock Island at present, and pee
pie will do well not only to lock the
doors well and fasten their windows, bI
l. to be guarded when upon the streets LAT
3 at night
e CLUE.
II The police received a valuable clue
through plea of guilty on the part (
the man arrested on suspicion yesterds
Al as mentioned in last nights ARGUS. Fl
name is Herman Schael; be lives in the ca
n end of town. and he plead guilty befol
Magistrate Bennett to participating in Il
VI robbery of VIM. Glockhof, Theo. Duet
and another man in front of the cou
house, whose name is not known as
;e has not reported to the police Offic
v. Cary, through clever pie,
of detective work, induced Scha
" to squeal on himself and his a
complice. He gives the name of Sc
of well known citizen as one of d
re desperadoes, but he does not know Il
N name of the other. 1t seems, therefor
II that the men who have committed the
y bold deeds live right here in Rock Islam
Schael was held in 81. $40 bail and Sc
10 Jail in default.
be A wild rumor spread along First aven
ne at 8 o'clock this afternoon that a M
had been held up in broad day light al
robbed. The facts were that straug
under the influence of liquor selected
cool place on the sidewalk, near {
6 Peoria depot, between Twentieth a
m n Twenty-first streets and went to slee
ed and while in that state a couple of rogu
81 81 went through. him. A pssser by observ
nd the theft and notified the police.
~ arrests so far
10 POLICE POINTS.
al Mike Kinney, living on Fourth aven
and Twenty seventh street, was fined
r ne and costs for beating his wife this MOI
les ing
for